Now the word "surrealism" is often understood as something strange, fantastic, irrational. Initially, the term denoted the largest trend in the art of the early 20th century, which became widespread throughout the world.
A bit of history
In 1924, the French poet and writer Andre Breton published the Manifesto of Surrealism. Five years later, he published a second book on the same topic, which cemented the success of the first. At the same time in Europe, a new direction in literature, painting, sculpture, photography - surrealism. Adherents of this movement saw art “in a different way”; they strove to create a different aesthetic that went against the traditional notions of beauty.
A distinctive feature of the work of the surrealists was the use of the paradoxical combination of illusions and forms. Artists skillfully combined the imagined and the present in the paintings. According to them, hallucinations, delirium and sleep can combine with reality and get absolute reality.
The debut exhibition of the surrealists took place in 1925 in Paris. Her visitors were shocked by the submitted works. Despite this, Paris soon became a mecca for surrealists around the world: such exhibitions were organized there with enviable frequency.
By the 70s, surrealism is a thing of the past, leaving as a legacy its principles that are relevant today.
